Improvement in hooded garments



aan site bandit@ .AMBROSE KEATING, 0F :BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TOBEN- JAMIN T. STEPHENSON, OF SAME IVLAGE.

Letters PatentNo. 110,242, dated December 20, 1870. A

IMPROVEMENT IN HOODED GARMENTS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part` of thesame.

To all persons to whom these presents may come:

Be tknown that I, AMBeosn KEATING, of Bos? ton, of -the county ofSuffolk and State of Massachusetts,`.have invented anew and usefulGarment, to which, in order to distinguish it from Various waterproofcloaks, I have given the commercial name of Storm Queen ;,77 and dohereby declare the same to be fully described in the followingspecication and represented iu theaceompanying drawing, of which-'-Figure 1 denotes a back View of the said garment;

Figure 2, a front view;v and Figure 3 a verticalsect'ion of it, taken soas to exhibit the cape and its hood, or capoeh.

The garment is a caped capote, with the hood or capoch arranged as apocket in and making part of4 the cape, whi-'ch is secured to the cloakor dress by buttons.l The said garment is intended to be worn' byawoman, although, in some cases, it may answer for a man.

The dress orcloak may have sleeves, or it may be made without them, orsimply with arm-holes.

-In the drawing- A denotes thedress or body of` the cloak; and

B B, the sleeves thereof.

C is the cape, which has a sac or reversible hood or capoch D, arrangedand formed in it, very much as a pocket is in a garment, the samebeing-as repx`resentedl The said cape maybe fastened or sewed to thedress or cloak, or it'may be provided with buttonholes a, in its sides,to. hitch upon buttons b, fixed to y Y the body A; the -cape, whenspread out, having a form analogous to the sector of a circle,and beingscalloped on its edges, except at the neck.

The dress maybe provided with a belt/to go around it, in order to enablethe. dross to be drawn closely person, so as to protect such from rainwhen the garment may be in wea-r.' When the capevwith the hood Generallyspeaking, the caped capote is to be made of what is termed a water-proofcloth or material, although I do not confine it *to such. In kmy saidgarment the openingl of the hood, when the hood is thrown outward,extends down iuthe cape in manner as shown at o, in -g. 3, a cape with acapoch or pocket-hood, so made, beting a new article of manufacture.

IVhen fixed to the dress by but-'tons and buttonholes, the cape with itscapooh may be easily removed, at any time, from'thedrcss, in order toenable the latterv to be worn as a gown or morning-robe. rlhe advantagesof this garment for travelers,.particularly for ladies on a voyage, arevery great in comparison to common water-proof cloaks whose hoods arefirm-v ly sewed to the bodies of thegarmeuts.

VI am aware ofthe invention or articles described in the EnglishProvisional specification, No. 264, ot' 1857; land make no claim tosuch, as theyinvolve the ordinary arrangement of a hood and cloak; thehood,.iu such case, forming nopart of the cape or having no moutharranged-,in and down the cape, as is the case in my garment orinvent-ion.

I am also aware that it is common tcmakc waterproof cloth-eloaltswith acloak body, or cape and a hood, the latter being fixed to the juntion ofthe cape and body, and having no mouth in the cape; I therefore make noclaim to such.

Vhat I claim is- The described new or improved manufacture of hoodedgarments, in which the hood has its opening or mouth in, through, anddown the cape, all as sety forth and represented. l AMBROSE KEATING.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, J. R. S'Now.

